Until our team leader , Mrs Jones, suggested that our next winter trip should be "The Gambia " .
I did not even know it existed as a holiday destination. However it passed the selection test on three counts , weather, price and we could stay in one place and do our trips out from base camp . So to speak.
Since making that decision it has turned out , as so often happens, we have met several people who have come here for their holidays and the feed back has been 100% positive.
Around about mid october, whilst we were in full house moving mode I checked in with the travel clinic re jabs. they told me, "Come in for Yellow Fever" . So I booked ...... On November 20th 1.30. This is relevant , I chose the appointment offered at that time because it was the day our packers would be packing up the appartment and I thought it would take our mind off things. Ha ha. why did I ever think that would be a good idea. Both of us, traumatised by leaving our lovely flat , sat in the doctors waiting room. The nurse called us in , gave us a wad of travel advice documents for The Gambia and then she started to tell us about the Yellow Fever jab..... For those over 60 the contraindications are ...... Well basically, 17 people in a million get bad reactions leading to bleeding in the brain and you most probably will die, or maybe we could also feel quite unwell but it would pass. We looked at each other and this is not a lie , each one of us in our heads was considering seriously the possibility of whether we could forgo the £2000 deposit and cancel the whole thing. Any brave feelings we might normally draw on where absent that day .
Once the nurse had finished terrifying us with the possible consequence of our own actions, ie absolving the Doctors of any responsibility for the outcome, she changed mode and convinced us we would be FINE, and with huge misgivings we went ahead. The next 10 days ( incubation time if we were to die) passed in such a tumble dryer of events neither of us even thought about yellow fever. We survived.
? We are now here and it is very different to anything I have experienced. I did not even know it existed as a holiday destination. However it passed the selection test on three counts , weather, price and we could stay in one place and do our trips out from base camp . So to speak.
Since making that decision it has turned out , as so often happens, we have met several people who have come here for their holidays and the feed back has been 100% positive.
Around about mid october, whilst we were in full house moving mode I checked in with the travel clinic re jabs. they told me, "Come in for Yellow Fever" . So I booked ...... On November 20th 1.30. This is relevant , I chose the appointment offered at that time because it was the day our packers would be packing up the appartment and I thought it would take our mind off things. Ha ha. why did I ever think that would be a good idea. Both of us, traumatised by leaving our lovely flat , sat in the doctors waiting room. The nurse called us in , gave us a wad of travel advice documents for The Gambia and then she started to tell us about the Yellow Fever jab..... For those over 60 the contraindications are ...... Well basically, 17 people in a million get bad reactions leading to bleeding in the brain and you most probably will die, or maybe we could also feel quite unwell but it would pass. We looked at each other and this is not a lie , each one of us in our heads was considering seriously the possibility of whether we could forgo the £2000 deposit and cancel the whole thing. Any brave feelings we might normally draw on where absent that day .
Once the nurse had finished terrifying us with the possible consequence of our own actions, ie absolving the Doctors of any responsibility for the outcome, she changed mode and convinced us we would be FINE, and with huge misgivings we went ahead. The next 10 days ( incubation time if we were to die) passed in such a tumble dryer of events neither of us even thought about yellow fever. We survived.
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Can't wat to hear more, x
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